Charlie Walks: A Novel by Daniel Bourke

Charlie Walks is a novel about a machine learning engineer who loves walks and wants to be a writer.

During the day, Charlie writes code for the largest technology company in the world. In his spare time, he works on a secret project, XK-1, a computer program to generate worlds.

During the night, Charlie writes words, letters to his nephew Pauly about experiences from his life and stories he's collected from XK-1.

Here's the official blurb:

Charlie's a funambulist, a tightrope walker, walking between head and heart between city and nature between a good path and a real path a known path and his own between being a hider and being a seeker between life and death living and dying one option and another another another.

The trick is, there's always more than two options.

That's where XK-1 comes in. Charlie's secret project. A computer program that shows you what you're supposed to see but can't imagine.

A machine learning engineer at the biggest technology company in the world who wants to be a writer.

Writing letters to his nephew Pauly. Stories from his past from his present from loving from longing from wandering from walking, step by step creating his own story.

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The first seven chapters are available to read for free on charliewalks.com.